Martin (John Amplas), a young man who looks around 20-years-old, boards a train in Indianapolis, Indiana for New York. At night, he breaks into a sleeping car and sedates a woman with a syringe full of narcotics. She struggles, but he tells her not to struggle or be upset because she wont feel pain. After a few minutes, the woman falls asleep, and Martin has sex with the unconscious woman. Afterwards, he slices her wrists with a razor blade so he can drink her blood. The woman bleeds to death in her sleep.
In the morning, the train stops in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania where Martin disembarks. He is met by Tata Cuda (Lincoln Maazel) an elderly and hostile old man who claims to be his cousin from the Old World. Together, they travel by another train to the town of Braddock, a dying industrial suburb. They walk to Cuda's large house where he shows Martin his living quarters. Cuda then accuses Martin of being an 84-year-old vampire from his old country. He has taken in Martin because he is family, but tells him, "First I will save your soul. Then I shall destroy you." Martin denies being a vampire and implies that Cuda is merely his uncle rather than his cousin. Cuda then puts up strings of garlic on the doors to his and his granddaughter's room, and then holds up a small cross when Martin approaches him. Martin takes away the cross, and even takes a bite of the garlic mocking these attempts by saying bitterly, "There's no real magic... ever". Cuda tells Martin that he can come and go as he pleases. But he also warns Martin that he will kill him if he kills anyone in Braddock. He also tells Martin to stay away from his granddaughter Christine (Christine Forrest), whom arrives home from her job that evening.
Cuda introduces Christine to Martin, but also warns her to stay away from him. But Christine instead strikes up a friendship with Martin who confides in her about his vampire heritage. When Cuda later confirms Martin's claims to be a vampire, Christine, not surprisingly, refuses to believe either one. She thinks that Cuda and the other members of her family have driven Martin to insanity by making him think that he is a vampire. It is never revealed if Martin really is a vampire, or just a shy and lonely youth with troubled issues. Christine is the only person that Martin gets the courage to talk to. When Christine's boyfriend Arthur (Tom Savini) arrives at the house for dinner, Martin stops talking and backs away despite Arthur's attempt at a conversation. Christine later confides in Martin that she hopes to leave Braddock someday with Arthur, even though Martin points out that Arthur treats her badly and is both verbally and physically abusive towards her.
When Christine sees that Martin won't talk to anyone else, she buys him a phone which he installs in his room. Martin begins to repeatingly call a radio talk show where he describes what it's like to be a vampire. He becomes known on the radio as "the Count" to all the listeners. But the patronizing host (Michael Gornick) thinks he's just crazy.
Martin gets a job at Cuda's grocery store of stocking shelves, hauling boxes around, and even gets to be a delivery boy for some of the customers. One of his customers is a certain Abby Santini (Elyane Nadeau), who becomes taken in with Martin. She is a very friendly young woman who is depressed when she tells Martin that her husband is unfaithful. But Martin still does not have the nerve to talk with her, so she is happy to have someone to confide in with her life problems. Martin phones the radio show host to describe his infatuation with the housewife and senses that she wants to have sex with him. When the radio show host asks Martin if it is a sexual problem that he has involving women criticizing him during sex, Martin replies that he has never had sex with a woman who was awake.
One day, Martin travels by train to outside Braddock to look for victims. At a supermarket, he follows a young woman (Sarah Venable) home to her posh suburban house. He sees the woman's husband (Richard Rubenstein) leave for a long business trip, and Martin decides this would be the right time for more feeding. Martin returns to the house after dark and breaks in through the garage door. But it is Martin who gets the surprise when he bursts into her bedroom to find her in bed with her adulterous lover Lewis (Al Levitsky). After a vicious struggle, Martin jabs both of them with hyprodermic needles with narcotics, and waits for the drugs to take affect. He drags the unconscious body of Lewis from the house to a clump of trees across the street where he kills him by shoving a broken tree branch into his neck and drinks his blood. Martin returns to the house where he has sex with the unconscious woman. But out of compassion and pity, he decides to let her live.
Martin begins to have romantic monochrome visions of his vampire past (real or imagined), where he drained blood from a young woman and was chased through the streets of a nameless European town by a torch-lit mob.
During one Sunday at church, Cuda brings home Father Howard (George A. Romero) who asks him about the possibility of exorcism and demon possession. Father Howard calls upon the elderly Father Zulemans (Clifford Forrest, Jr.) over at Cuda's request. Together, Cuda and Zulemans confront Martin his bedroom and attempt to perform an exorcism on him. At this point, Martin remembers (another real or imaginary flashback), in the Old Country of people trying to perform an exorcism on him, and he flees them. Martin then flees from Cuda and Zuelmas as well. A little later that night, Martin terrorizes Cuda in a children's playground when he puts on a Dracula cape and puts false fangs into his mouth to pretend that he really is a vampire.
One day, Martin finally musters the courage to talk with Mrs. Santini during a routine delivery to her house where he tells her that he's aware of her attempts to seduce him and wants now to have sex with her. After having sex for the first time, Mrs. Santini becomes more depressed for she tells Martin that her husband just left her because she discovered that she cannot bear children, and that her desires towards him are based on sex and nothing else. But Martin wants to stay with her and help her move on with her life. Martin tells the radio show host about his affair with the housewife and that he no longer has the urge to attack other women.
Meanwhile, Arthur meets with Cuda and tells him that he wants Christine to leave town with him so they can get married and start a family. But Christine becomes angry at Cuda when he tells Arthur that insanity runs in their family and he shouldn't consider having children with her. Shortly afterwards, Christine packs up and leaves Braddock for New York with Arthur despite Martin telling her that Arthur is abusive towards her. But her mind is made up. Before leaving, Christine tells Martin that she really has no ill feelings towards him and just wants to make a fresh start with her life. She says goodbye to him and promises to write. But Martin knows that with an abusive and possessive man in Christine's life, she probably won't.
Depressed over losing his one true friend, Martin phones the radio show host and tells him that he's getting "shaky" and wants to go out looking for more victims. That night, Martin travels to a rough crime-ridden area of Pittsburgh and attacks two derelicts in a alley, injecting them with narcotics. He kills one of them by silting the bum's wrist and drinking his blood. Martin is about to kill the second one when a police car shows up and gives chase. Martin narrowly escapes during a long chase on foot which leads from the garbage strew streets and through a local store. Martin runs into an old warehouse where a drug deal is going down. A shootout between the two cops and the three thugs begins where all of them are killed, leaving Martin as the sole survivor who casually walks away from the carnage.
One day, Martin finds Mrs. Santini dead in her bathtub, after she had slit her writs with a razor blade. Martin anonymously calls the police to report the body and leaves. He phones the radio show host one final time to say that he really doesn't need friends or people to talk to for he is his own person. But when Cuda learns about Mrs. Santini's suicide, is mistakenly thinks Martin killed her and made it look like a suicide as he's done before. Cuda walks into Martin's room while he is asleep and kills him by hammering a wooden stake through Martin's heart.
Cuda buries Martin's body in his back garden, while over the closing credits various voices from people are heard talking to the radio show host asking the whereabouts of "the Count".
因为没看过多少凯奇的片子，所以感触较少，不能共情，只能看个热闹
抱有一定期待之后就觉得没那么好看，除了揶揄自己演艺生涯的梗之外，就是中白男的Bromance互相喜欢崇拜基情满满，甚至连那个Little Nic都满是改编剧本的样子，于剧情甚至没太大关系。剧情写到后半部的营救就完全没在补救逻辑上的简单漏洞，就把戏里戏外敷衍地交汇到了英雄迟暮掰回人生一城的反转中，从头到尾这个与自己玩笑对话的电影从来没在精神上走出自己的影子。当然，汤姆克鲁斯还在演美国英雄拯救世界的时候，至少看到了尼古拉斯凯奇将演艺事业改道成Steve Carell和Ben Stiller 一样的喜剧演员的努力。
imdb 8.7, douban 7.2 差距不小啊|| 小时候改变剧本get不到,老了这部电影get不到|| 这片子更像是凯奇给忠实的老粉丝的一部情书,一封道歉信,一个解释. 问题是除了这是凯奇，这部片子的剧情乏善可陈，笑点也很有限。
凯奇的商业片要是都能有这水平的话显然是不用担心未来的。
基治本是个好演员，毁于烂片。他还能焕发第二春吗？
哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈其实做的事是薇诺娜在黑天鹅，鸟人，摔跤王做的那些事，调侃自己的过气并消费剥削它获得电影媒介自反，but那些都有表达有深度，这个真的除了调侃啥也不剩（竟然有点像扬名立万，那种烂片质感）但还是获得了快乐浅及格吧
还挺有趣，戏里戏外半真半假的凯奇，最大的趣点就是凯奇作为真实的自我去扮演另一个虚假的他，电影里里外外都是凯奇粉丝向的。不要抱有期待凯奇咸鱼翻身拍了一部什么惊艳四方的大经典，对于现在的凯奇来说很难，因为大制作很难找上门，只有独立风格的电影还可以尝试，所以完全没必要总期待凯奇什么时候可以翻身，他其实已经翻身了。这部电影是有其可看之处的。趣味性、娱乐性，以凯奇作为中心而打造一个关于演员自白类型的娱乐片，尚可。
挺好的，希望能打响Nick Cage翻身第一枪。Pedro Pascal演的这个迷弟大佬角色太可爱了，贡献了大半笑点。//看完之后果断把帕丁顿熊2和卡里加里博士的小屋加入想看列表。
明明可以做个特别疯逼且可爱的片子，结果真是哪儿哪儿都差点意思。不过看完还是发自内心感叹，一个中国影迷对凯奇的爱是无法撼动的。
对了，曼达洛人，穿上你的盔甲，1V1000
Fucking absurd but also fucking awesome. 还是挺好看的，十分荒诞的同时却又让人看的津津有味。整部电影有着浓厚的网大质感，主线故事有一定创新不过核心还是挺套路的，更不用说有太多扯淡的细节。但是凯奇叔和帕斯卡这两个老男人的演技真的炸裂，言谈举止嬉笑怒骂之间真的全是戏，居然真的化腐朽为神奇。虽然各种扯淡，可是用心地方也很多，太多的梗让老影迷又想笑又想哭。那个男人终于真的又回来了，not that he went anywhere...
笑死哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈我好爱这种 影迷电影 充满了我这种浅层影迷看了也会觉得好笑的inside joke
自己致敬自己可还了得，凯奇你以后要争气啊！
爸的电影宇宙，老旧港式喜剧路子。★★☆/5.9
拍了部烂片然后说这片是片中片也没法摆脱自己是烂片的现实 这么个好的点子创意就这么糟蹋剥削掉了
加一颗星纯属是因为...这可是尼古拉斯·凯奇啊喂！
如果非要选几个对我个人而言影响较大的国外男演员，凯奇叔一定稳坐前三、甚至前二的位置；某些场面仿佛让我感觉回到了将近20年前老爸带着对电影一窍不通的我一块看《变脸》的时候。某种程度上是一部对凯奇本人和其过往经典作品致敬的“元电影”，说实话两年多前听闻本片刚立项的时候可没想到会选取这种角度拍，而以为会是很无趣的普通传记片(可能还是被这些年凯奇叔各种“王姐归来”的噱头给吓怕了吧233)。其实犯罪和动作戏部分还是略显老套的，也许是成本限制吧。总体来说，本片完成度在我个人心目中的确算是凯奇叔近年较高的作品了，跟另一部我比较喜欢的他近年难得的口碑还OK的作品《星之彩》有的一拼。四星整。
27.04.2022 | 这个不知道算不算是喜剧的东西并没有逗乐我，全程太尬了。近期的院线中可期待的难道只有Men和NOPE了吗。（这还要等到海枯石烂）
确实是一部character-driven adult drama！编剧和导演可太爱凯奇了，致敬了多部凯奇的老电影！剧本本身散发着一种迷人的老派气质，很像凯奇当年的改编剧本！戏中戏的嵌套，有两个比较意外的地方，第一个是Javi并不是真正的老大，这我没想到；第二个是就在紧张刺激的时刻，发现凯奇在电影中的老婆又换成了黛米摩尔，原来已经拍了Javi的剧本！Mafia从业人员写剧本，又让我想起了伍迪艾伦的子弹横飞好莱坞！我说凯奇的女儿怎么那么眼熟呢，原来是凯特贝金赛尔和迈克尔辛的女儿，小姑娘太可爱了！轻松愉悦又不乏细节和深度，最后落脚是亲情，有合家欢那味儿了！凯奇的演技是真好！一脸大胡子，感觉再胖一点，可以演他uncle福特科波拉了！帕斯卡在狂热粉丝和冒牌大佬之间反复横跳，可可爱爱的，但是演技得努力
本以为凯奇叔儿终于要回归the weather man那种文艺片了，没想到还是拐到枪战去了……
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